[20] Quanta dementia est vereri, ne infameris ab infamibus ? Quemadmodum famam extimuistis sine causa, sic et illa, quae numquam timeretis, nisi fama iussisset. Num quid detrimenti faceret vir bonus iniquis rumoribus sparsus?
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[20] Quanta dementia est vereri, ne infameris ab infamibus ? Quemadmodum famam extimuistis sine causa, sic et illa, quae numquam timeretis, nisi fama iussisset. Num quid detrimenti faceret vir bonus iniquis rumoribus sparsus?
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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